The ninth
The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the spring water sends off the boat.
Traveling to the south, the scenery of the small bridge and flowing water gradually increased, Nianchi was born in the northern snowfield since childhood, and was not proficient in water, so he was unwilling to abandon the land route and take the waterway.
However, in the south, rivers and lakes are crisscrossed, and the water network is vertical and horizontal. If she wanted to get to the Vault Valley, sometimes the waterway was the only option.
On this day, Nianchi traveled to the riverside, but saw fishing boats dotted and fluttering, and a half-old canopy boat docked on the shore.
The boatman was a white-bearded old man with a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, who combed two long braids, and when she saw her, she squinted her eyes and smiled: "My sister is from Lin'an, let's get on the boat, my grandfather and I have been waiting for you for a few days." β
Nian Chi got on the boat in response, and didn't ask who they were entrusted to wait for him, because they must not be able to ask, and along the way, the various arrangements of the people behind the scenes did not seem to harm themselves.
Naturally, there were other ships docked on the riverside, but Nian Chi still got on this one.
If the other party is a friend, then she will naturally be safe on this trip.
If the other party is an enemy, follow the trap he laid, and you can see his true face in the shortest possible time.
Between the river and the sky, the scenery on both sides of the river is picturesque.
The white-bearded old man held the boat very steadily, because although the river was dangerous, Nianchi did not have too much discomfort.
On this day, when I came to a detour of the river, a few green mountains not far away obscured my sight, but the water was gradually turbulent.
The girl with long braids glanced at the Jiangtian Mountains in the distance, squinted and smiled, "It looks like the little fish and shrimp are coming to make trouble in Longmen, sister, don't be afraid for a while." β
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a long howl in the distance, and more than a dozen fast boats with wide and flat bottoms, with one-color wind canopies, suddenly sailed from behind the mountains.
On the bow of each ship, on either side stood five or six burly men, armed with swords and axes, and murderous.
The white-bearded man's expression remained unchanged, and he still held the boat forward, and the girl with long braids also smiled and groaned, and the grandfather and grandson seemed to be blind to all this in front of them.
"Old man, leave the veiled girl on the ship, and we will spare your life."
In the distance, the big man on the boat began to shout, and everyone was waiting for him, but he found that the other party only had a lonely boat and two people, an old man and a young man.
The girl with long braids laughed and said, "Seeing that you are also old, why do you want to rob other people's beautiful girls in broad daylight, don't you have a daughter-in-law, how can you rob other people's beautiful girls in broad daylightβah, I know, it must be because you were born too ugly, and no one wants to marry you!" β
The man who shouted was furious, and at this time the two ships were so close that he could no longer bear it, and jumped into the air with a steel knife in his hand.
The white-bearded man still only supported the boat, and the girl with long braids sighed, "I said it wrong, not only are you ugly, but you have a worse temper, so no one wants to be your wife." β
When her words fell, she suddenly raised her sleeves, but when she saw a flash of silver light, the big man had fallen straight into the river from the air, blood gushing out, and being washed away by the river.
"This little girl has a hidden weapon in her hand, everyone be careful."
The big men on the other ship shouted, guarded, and eager to try, and at this time, the distance between the ships was getting closer and closer.
Almost at the same time, dozens of big men on the other side of the ship jumped into the air with weapons in their hands, and the long pigtailed girl's hands were also raised at the same time, and for a while, the cold light flickered, and many people were injured by hidden weapons.
However, the other party was really outnumbered, and he saw that another group of big men were about to jump onto the boat.
At this time, the white-bearded man, who had been calmly holding the boat, struck a long rod in his hand, splashed the river a little bit, and was as urgent as a sword, heading towards the big man who had followed one after another.
The sound of falling water and the sound of pain are endless.
The river was stained with blood and turned a faint red.
Nian Chi was secretly frightened, under the blow of this old man, what kind of deep internal force should be hidden, so that he could use water as a tool and hurt people's lives.
The big men on the boat were afraid of the power of his blow, and they no longer dared to rush forward, but the old man still held his hand on the long post and steadily sailed the boat into the opponent's ship formation.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Someone shouted.
"No, you can't accidentally hurt the person you want!"
"Then, the brothers dive to the bottom of the river and gouge the boat!"
As he spoke, he wanted to jump down the river.
Nian Chi was shocked, although she had seen that the two of them were by no means idle, but they were not water-free, if they really scuttled the boat, once they fell into the water, it would be difficult for her to protect herself.
And she couldn't completely surrender her life to someone else's protection.
At this time, the situation was unknown, and she did not want to use poison to hurt people's lives and make her identity suspicious.
I was about to do it, but I heard the old man suddenly raise his voice and howl, the whistling sound went straight into the sky, and then echoed between the mountains and rivers, for a long time, and it made people's ears tremble, as if all the internal organs were stirred.
The big man on the boat couldn't bear it, and the blades and weapons in his hands fell one after another, reached out to cover his ears, and rolled on the ground in pain.
Nian Chi held his mind, meditated and breathed, and after a while, he felt that the whistle was low.
The men on the opposing ship were still wallowing in pain, while behind the mountains hurried out of another ship, similar in appearance to the previous ones, but obviously more elaborate and luxurious.
A middle-aged man standing at the bow of the boat arched his hand to the old man from a distance and said: "I really don't know that the old man Bai is here, how offended, and I hope that the old man Haihan." β
The old man said lightly: "It's not necessary, this river walking, with hard kung fu, you have the ability to stop me, the old man will leave his life to you, otherwise, I will pass." β
The middle-aged man was drenched in sweat on his forehead, and said again and again: "The old man is not strange, the younger generation really doesn't know, otherwise he would never dare to disturb the old man with the courage of the younger generation." β
"And the veiled girl on this ship, do you still want to take it with you?"
"Don't dare, don't dare, since Miss Zhuang is the old man's guest, the juniors will naturally send it off."
After finishing speaking, the order was immediately given, and more than ten boats in the river sailed to both sides of the river in a moment, and the small canopy boat on which the memorial pond was taken was in the center of the wide river.
The old man didn't say much, he held up the long pole and continued to move forward, until he traveled a long way, Nian Chi looked back, and still saw that the more than ten clippers were still lined up in the same place to send off, and they didn't dare to leave.
Nian Chi looked at the old man who was still calmly supporting the boat, and remembered a character who was famous in the world in the past but had long since retired to the rivers and lakes, but he did not expect to meet him, and he would deign to support the boat for himself.
The dragon on the river, the white mist column.
"The old white seniors are driving the boat, and the younger generations are really scared." She saluted.
Bai Wulie glanced at her, "The girl has some knowledge, and her internal strength is not weak, no wonder she dares to expose her identity in the rivers and lakes surrounded by tigers and wolves." β
Nian Chi said: "The seniors know the identity of the juniors, but the ancestors are old friends? β
Bai Wulie snorted coldly, "Isn't Tianshui Pavilion amazing, why did the old man want to make friends with it?" β
Nian Chi was silent, and he said so, it was not because of her identity as an orphan in Tianshui Pavilion that she was escorted.
Seeing that she didn't speak, the girl with long braids smiled and came over to take her hand, "Sister, my grandfather is like this, don't be angry." β
Nian Chi shook his head and asked again, "Then someone asked the seniors to escort the juniors?" β
Bai Wulie turned his head away and stopped talking, and the girl with long braids still held her hand and smiled: "Yes or no, what's the matter, sister, you have me as your companion along the way, are you happy?" β
"Naturally, I'm happy." Nian Chi Dao.
I don't ask anymore, because I know I can't answer the question.